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BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Apr 2, 2013
Bar set high for rookie stars Sugano, Otani
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters have spent a first-round draft pick on the top pitching prospect in Japan in each of the last two years, and in both instances that player has initially said thanks, but no thanks.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 30, 2013
Nippon Ishin unveils new platform at convention
Nippon Ishin no Kai introduces candidates for the Upper House election and a new platform that calls for revising the 'Occupation Constitution' at its first-ever convention.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 30, 2013
Ishihara too sick to attend Nippon Ishin's first convention
Shintaro Ishihara, coleader of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party), will miss its first-ever convention this weekend due to ill health, a party official confirmed Friday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 8, 2013
Fighters' Yoh enjoying spotlight with Taiwan at WBC
Daikan Yoh was surrounded by a mob befitting a rock star. Most eyes had been trained on the Taiwanese outfielder during his team's practice session at Tokyo Dome on Friday, and finally they'd caught up to him.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jan 30, 2013
Otani ready for new challenges with Fighters
Shohei Otani spent part of his Saturday afternoon being shepherded around one of Makuhari Messe's spacious international exhibition halls while having ham shoved in his mouth.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 25, 2013
Nippon Ishin, Your Party to cooperate in summer poll; no merger yet
Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) and Your Party will cooperate in this summer's Upper House election by not running candidates against each other in the same district.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jan 24, 2013
Trading four-time All-Star Itoi doesn't make sense for Fighters
So why did the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters trade away arguably the best player on their team, if not in the entire Pacific League?
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 18, 2013
Hashimoto to colead Nippon Ishin in bid to heal rift over Ishihara
Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) founder Toru Hashimoto will be appointed coleader of the party in a move designed to heal the rift between the Osaka faction and Shintaro Ishihara that is threatening the party's prospects in this summer's Upper House election.
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2012
Ishihara-Kawamura tieup rattles Hashimoto
Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) head Toru Hashimoto expressed criticism and disappointment Thursday over an agreement between former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara's Taiyo no To (The Sunrise Party) and Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura's Genzei Nippon (Tax Reduction Japan) to unite ahead of the...
Reader Mail
Dec 18, 2011
Shame on the whale killers
Regarding David McNeill's Dec. 11 article, "Tohoku ¥ for whales?": I was in tears for the Japanese tsunami victims, and I donated a large amount of money that I could not really afford because their suffering was unbearable.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 6, 2009
Price of centralized power
MOSCOW — The emergence of a Kremlin leader, President Dmitry Medvedev, without a KGB background, combined with the economic crisis, has inspired talk that when Barack Obama visits Moscow this week, America's president will be seeing a country on the verge of a new political thaw, a revived perestroika....
Reader Mail
Jun 26, 2008
A name for indentured servitude
Why are letters like Brian Clacey's on June 22, "Give guest workers a set contract," even published? Xenophobe Clacey does not live in Japan and his ideas are appallingly ignorant and selfish. Why not just call "fixed contracts" indentured servitude coupled with expulsion — should the foreign worker...
Reader Mail
Apr 13, 2008
Critical issue is free speech
The author of the letter "Better to stay home than dis the flag" obviously does not understand the foremost point of the protest by teachers in Tokyo and the rest of Japan.
Reader Mail
Mar 11, 2008
Across-the-board pay hikes miss
I find it astonishing that Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, with a degree in economics from Waseda University and his years of experience in commerce, should urge companies to pay more to their workers in order to boost the economy as a whole. Surely this demonstrates a lack of understanding of the most...
Reader Mail
Dec 16, 2007
Witness account counts for naught
On the way to work earlier this month, I heard the screech of tires. I turned around to see a taxicab skidding to a halt. But before it did so, it bumped into and knocked over an elderly woman who was trying to cross the road on her bike. I went over to see if she was OK, and then helped her to the...

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